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Saturday Open Thread: African Americans in Oceanography/Marine Biology

January 12, 2013 by Miranda 102 Comments

Enjoy the weekend Obots! Our final Scientist of the Sea for the week is Roger Arliner Young. Roger Arliner Young, grew up in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania in 1889.  She was the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in zoology and to conduct research at the prestigious Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.  Young conducted research on the anatomy of paramecium … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: African Americans in Oceanography/Marine Biology

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